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Hardcover, 20.2 x 13.6 cm, green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, in unclipped dust jacket, pp.: [1-8] 9-334 [2]. Title-page: THE HONORARY CONSUL | GRAHAM GREENE | {4 line citation} | {publisher’s device} | THE BODLEY HEAD | LONDON SYDNEY | TORONTO || © Graham Greene 1973. Printed by: William Clowes & Sons Ltd. (Beccles). Graham Greene (British, 1904 – 1991).
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3-volume set, 1st edition, with original wrappers. Vol. 1: Half-title: THE | INGLODSBY LEGENDS. Title (in black and red, emblematic, engraved): THE | Ingoldsby Legends | OR | MIRTH AND MARVELS | by | THOMAS INGOLDSBY | ESQUIRE | In frame: | LONDON. | RICHARD BENTLEY. | MDCCCXL. | Under the frame: J. S. GWILT. | INV. Pagination: ffl, [2] – blanks, [i, ii] – h.t./ colophon, [2] – t.p. / verso blank, [iii] iv-v [vi] – blank, contents / list of ill., blank / etching, [1] 2-338 [339], [7] incl. orig. covers and spine bound in, bfl; 6 plates: 1 by Buss, 3 by Leech, 2 by Cruikshank. Vol. 2: Half-title: THE | INGLODSBY LEGENDS. |—| SECOND SERIES.|| Title (in black and red, emblematic, engraved): THE | Ingoldsby Legends | OR | MIRTH AND MARVELS | by | THOMAS INGOLDSBY | ESQUIRE | SECOND SERIES | In frame: | LONDON | RICHARD BENTLEY. | MDCCCXLII. | Under the frame: G. COOK SCULPo|| Pagination: ffl, [2] – blanks, [i, ii] – h.t. / colophon, [iii, iv] – t.p. / verso blank, [v] vi-vii [viii ] – blank, contents / blank, blank / etching, [1] 2-288 [6], incl. orig. covers and spine bound in, bfl; 7 plates: 3 by Leech, 4 by Cruikshank. Vol. 3: Half-title: THE | INGLODSBY LEGENDS. |—| THIRD SERIES.|| Title (in black and red, emblematic, engraved): THE | Ingoldsby Legends | OR | MIRTH AND MARVELS | by | THOMAS INGOLDSBY | ESQUIRE | THIRD SERIES | In frame: | LONDON | RICHARD BENTLEY. | MDCCCXLVII. | Under the frame: COOK || Pagination: ffl, [2] – blanks] [i, ii] – h.t. / colophon, [2] – t.p. / verso blank], [iii] iv-vi – contents / list of ill., blank / portrait, [1] 2-364 [6], incl. orig. covers and spine bound in, bfl; 6 plates: 2 portraits, 2 by Leech, 2 by Cruikshank. Binding: 3 volumes, 8vo, 20.5 x 13.5 cm, hardcover, full carmine morocco, triple ruled in gilt, top edge gilt, slightly raised bands, gilt lettering and double fillet gilt panels to spine by T. W. Morrell & Co. (London) for Brentano's bookstore in New York. 6, 7, and 6 (19 total) plates inset. The original brown figured cloth covers and spines preserved at the end of each volume. Catalogue raisonné: Albert M. Cohn, 1924: №50, p.20. Contrary to A. Cohn's description, the first etching in the first series is signed “Dalton del.” bottom left and “Buss sculp.” bottom right. It has been suggested that the name Dalton might refer to Richard Harris Dalton Barham (British, 1815-1886). Robert William Buss (1804 – 1875). Portrait (v.3, p.1): John William Cook (fl.1819 - 1862) after Richard James Lane (British, 1800 – 1872). Portrait (v.3, p.127): Henry Griffiths after Dalton. Seller's description: First editions, mixed states, in full crimson levant morocco by Morrel for Brentanos, New York. Vol.1, p. 236 is NOT blank, but unpaginated; Vol. 2 does NOT have a list of ill's on verso of contents; Vol. 3, p. 351 'to pot' NOT run together. Cloth spine and front cover bound in the back of each volume, all volumes have half-titles, with engraved titles and 19 plates by Cruikshank, Leech, et al. Conforms in the main to Sadlier 156b, 156e, and 156f.
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Title page: АПОЛЛОН ГРИГОРЬЕВ | ВОСПОМИНАНИЯ | РЕДАКЦИЯ И КОММЕНТАРИИ | ИВАНОВА – РАЗУМНИКА | « ACADEMIA» | МОСКВА — ЛЕНИНГРАД | 1930 || Duplicate title: ПАМЯТНИКИ | ЛИТЕРАТУРНОГО | БЫТА | ВОСПОМИНАНИЯ | АПОЛЛОНА ГРИГОРЬЕВА | И ВОСПОМИНАНИЯ О НЕМ | «ACADEMIA» | МОСКВА — ЛЕНИНГРАД | 1930 || Title verso: Супер-обложка | худ. В. М. Конашевича | Тиснение на переплете | худ. А. А. Ушина | {imprint} || Print run: 5070 copies. Pagination: [i-v] vi-viii, [1-3] 4-697 [3]. Collation: 8vo; π4, 1-428, Ω14 (total 345 leaves) + 1 plate (photomechanical portrait frontispiece). Note: 11 unsigned. Binding: 18 x 13 cm; purple cloth, gilt-stamped with geometrical design, gilt lettering to spine, pictorial DJ (short, 16 cm). Catalogue raisonné: Крылов-Кичатова (2004): № 403, p.210. Григорьев, Аполлон Александрович (Russian, 1822 – 1864) – character, author. Конашевич, Владимир Михайлович (Russian, 1888 – 1963) – artist. Ушин, Алексей Алексеевич (Russian, 1904 – 1942) – artist.
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Title-page: GRAHAM GREENE | — | A Burnt Out Case | {publisher's device} | HEINEMANN | LONDON MELBURNE TORONTO || Black buckram with silver lettering to spine, green pictorial dust jacket, unclipped (16s | NET), [2] h.t. / books by GG, [2] t.p. / copyright, [2] quotations / blank, [2] dedication to Doctor Michel Lechat; [1, 2] d.t.p. Part I / blank, 3-256. Total 264 pages. Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd. Printer: Windmill Press Ltd., Kingswood, Surrey. Copyright: © Graham Greene 1960, 1961. Wrapper design: Lacey Everett. Graham Greene (British, 1904 – 1991) William Henry Heinemann (Jewish-British, 1863 – 1920) Michel Lechat (Belgian, 1927 – 2014)
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Small volume, 14 x 10 cm, in tan cloth with vignette and lettering to front, lettering to spine, pp.: [1-4] 5-123 [5], total 64 leaves, 10 full-page and 7 double-page two-colour woodcuts within pagination, and numerous b/w in-text vignettes by Serhiy Adamovych; translated from the Ukrainian into English by Oles Kovalenko. Print run: 11,000 copies. Contributors: Марко Вовчок [Marko Vovchok; Марія Олександрівна Вілінська] (Ukrainian, 1833 – 1907) – author. Other variants: Markowovzok and Marko Vovtchok. Олесь Iванович Коваленко (Ukrainian, 1945 – 2012) – translator from the Ukrainian into English. Сергiй Тадейович Адамович [Serhiy Adamovych] (Ukrainian, 1922 – 1998) – artist.
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Two-volume set. MÉMOIRES | DE | JACQUES | CASANOVA | DE SEINGALT | 1734 — Extraits — 1755 | COLLIGÉS PAR | RÉNE GROOS | ILLUSTRATIONS | DE | BRUNELLESCHI | {vignette} | GIBERT JEUNE | LIBRAIRIE D’AMATEURS | 61, BOULEVARD DE SAINT-MICHEL, 61 | PARIS || Pagination: [6], 1-345 [346], [8]; frontispiece and 15 colour plates (collotype), b/w tail-pieces and vignettes (offset). MÉMOIRES | DE | JACQUES | CASANOVA | DE SEINGALT | 1755 — Extraits — 1772 | COLLIGÉS PAR | RÉNE GROOS | ILLUSTRATIONS | DE | BRUNELLESCHI | {vignette} | GIBERT JEUNE | LIBRAIRIE D’AMATEURS | 61, BOULEVARD DE SAINT-MICHEL, 61 | PARIS || Pagination: [6] 1-337 [348] [8]; frontispiece and 15 colour plates (collotype), b/w tail-pieces and vignettes (offset). Limited edition, №2507 of 3000. Binding: original tan pictorial wrappers, in a slipcase.
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Title page: MODERN | FILM | SCRIPTS | THE THIRD MAN | a film by | Graham Greene | and Carol Reed | Simon and Schuster, New York. Pagination: [1-4] 5-134 [2] blank. Binding: publisher’s pictorial wrappers with the film still and lettering in blue and black to front, back, and spine. Size: 20.2 x 14 cm. The Third Man is a 1949 British film directed by Carol Reed, written by Graham Greene and starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, and Trevor Howard. Contributors: Graham Greene (British, 1904 – 1991) – author. Carol Reed (British, 1906 – 1976) – film director. Simon & Schuster (NY) – publisher. Villiers Publications, Ltd. (London) – printer.
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Description: Original cream French flapped wrappers, 27.4 x 20 cm, in a white moiré double slipcase 28.5 x 21.5 cm; collated 4to, gatherings with double-page illustrations collated 6to; printed on thick wove paper watermarked “BFK RIVES”, outer and bottom margins untrimmed; paginated: [2 blanks] [1-8] 9-140 [4] [2 blanks], total 44 pages (besides the blanks in wrappers), illustrated with 12 full-page and 4 in-text drypoint plates by Georges Viglino after pencil drawings by Gaston de Sainte-Croix. Enriched with 16 leaves of plates printed in sepia on Arches teinté paper (watermarked). Title-page (in salmon and black): NOUS | DEUX | ILLUSTRE DE | SEIZE POINTES SÈCHES ORIGINALES | ÉDITIONS DU CYCLAMEN – M CM LVI || Limitation: A print run of 200 copies, of which 2 copies (A and B) on Japon Nacré + one suite of plates on Japon Impérial, 30 copies (№ 1-30) on Rives + one suite of plates on Arches, and 168 copies (№ 31-198) on Rives pur fil. This copy is № 29, on BFK Rives with a suite on Arches. Catalogue raisonné: Dutel (1920-1970) № 2055, p. 282. Contributors: Marcel Valotaire (French, 1889 – 1979) – author Gaston de Sainte-Croix (French, 1904 – 1977) – artist Georges Viglino – engraver/printer (attributed by Dutel). Jacques Vialetay – publisher (attributed by Dutel).
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Казанова Д. Истрия моей жизни. — М.: Моск. рабочий, 1991. — 734 с. Составление, вступительная статья, комментарии А. Ф. Строева. Перевод И. К. Стаф, А. Ф. Строева, 1990. ISBN: 5—239—00590—7 Original title: Giacomo Casanova. Histoire de ma vie.
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Title page: L'AN DEUX MILLE QUATRE CENT QUARANTE. | Rêve s'il en fût jamais. | Le temps présent est gros de l'avenir... | Leibnitz. | {letterpress device} | A LONDRES. | MD CCLXXII. || Pagination: [i-iv] v-xii, 1-402 [2]; Collation: 8vo; π6 A-Z8 Aa-Bb8 Cc2. Binding: 19 x 12 cm, full mottled calf, rebacked, spine with gilt-lettered red label, compartments ruled gilt, with gilt fleuron ornament, marbled endpapers and all edges; printed on laid paper, with tall “s”. Probably published in Paris, anonymously. Handwritten nut-ink inscription to the title "Par Mercier". See also: LIB-0979.2016
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Title: JACK KAHANE | ★ | Memoirs of a | Booklegger | [space] | {publisher’s device} | MICHAEL JOSEPH LTD. | 26, Bloomsbury Street, London, W.C.I || Pagination: [1-6] 7-287 [288 blank]; total 288 pages. Collation: 8vo; [A]8 B-S8; total 144 leaves. Binding: 21.5 x 15 cm, by James Burn, publisher’s blue cloth, silver lettering to spine, yellow endpapers; cream dust-jacket with black and red lettering and reproduced photo portrait of the author. Contributors: Jack Kahane (British, 1887 – 1939) – author. Michael Joseph (British, 1897 – 1958); Michael Joseph Ltd. (London) – publisher. William Brendon & Son, Ltd.; Mayflower Press (Plymouth) – printer. John Dickinson & Co.; John Dickinson (British, 1782 – 1869) – paper maker. Frederick E. Kahane – dedicatee (brother of Jack).
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Russian translation of Louis-Sébastien Mercier. Tableau de Paris (1781). First edition, thus. Two volumes, 19.5 x 14 cm, uniformly bound in blue cloth with dark blue vignette to front cover and lettering to spine, in pictorial dust jacket; pp. vol. I: [I-VI] VII-LIII [LIV] [2] [2] 3-565 [566] [2]; collated 8vo: [I]-III8, IV4, [1]-358 364; total 312 leaves (624 pages) plus repro engraved frontispiece and 21 plates; vol 2: [1-10] 11-492 [4], collated 8vo: [1]-318; total 248 leaves (496 pages) plus 29 plates. Design by Н. В. Кузьмин. Title-page (black and red): ЛУИ-СЕБАСТЬЯН МЕРСЬЕ | КАРТИНЫ ПАРИЖА | Перевод В. А. Барбашевой | Редакция и комментарии | Е. А. Гунста | Статья Ц. Фридлянда | ТОМ ПЕРВЫЙ (ВТОРОЙ) | ACADEMIA | 1935(6) || Opposite t.p. (black and red): ФРАНЦУЗСКАЯ ЛИТЕРАТУРА | ЛУИ-СЕБАСТЬЯН МЕРСЬЕ | 1740—1814 | ACADEMIA | Москва—Ленинград || T.p. verso: LOUIS-SÉBASTIEN MERCIER | TABLEAU DE PARIS | 1781 | Супер-обложка и переплет | Н. В. Кузьмина || Print run: 5,300 copies. Catalogue raisonné: Крылов-Кичатова 747 (vol. 1), 838 (vol. 2). Contributors: Louis-Sébastien Mercier (French, 1740 – 1814) – author. Барбашева, Вера Александровна (Russian, 1875 – 1943) – translator. Гунст, Евгений Анатольевич (Russian, 1901 – 1983) – editor, comments. Фридлянд, Цви [Григорий Самойлович] (Russian-Jewish, 1897 – 1937) – author (preface). Kuzmin, Nikolai Vasilievich [Кузьмин, Николай Васильевич] (Russian, 1890 – 1987) – artist.